Mitch Pronschinske 
New Resources for Running Solr on an Azure Cloud
Email
This search technology content is part of the Solr-Lucene Microzone, supported by Lucid Imagination, a company of Solr/Lucene all-stars that provides free distributions, training, and a search application development platform called LucidWorks Enterprise.
I just found a great new project on GitHub that's going to help a lot of Solr and Lucene projects deploy to a cloud infrastructure today. It's a showcase on how to configure and host Solr and Lucene on Windows Azure:
The GitHub readme also has 11 setup prerequisites to check out, and you'll also find a link to this more robust tutorial on Solr-Azure interop:
In case you forgot (or maybe you never knew), Windows Azure supports Java and not just .NET. That's why you're able to deploy Lucene, a Java library, on Azure. Kudos to the Microsoft team for recognizing the importance of Solr and Lucene in many Java applications.
Github Project : Azure/Solr Tutorial
In this project we showcase how to configure and host Solr/Lucene in Windows Azure using multi-instance replication for index-serving and single-instance for index generation with a persistent index mounted in Azure storage. Typical scenarios we address with this sample are commercial and publisher sites that need to scale the traffic with increasing query volume and need to index maximum 16 TB of data and require couple of index updates per day.
--Microsoft Interop team
The GitHub readme also has 11 setup prerequisites to check out, and you'll also find a link to this more robust tutorial on Solr-Azure interop:
In this tutorial we showcase how to configure and host Solr/Lucene in Windows Azure using multi-instance replication for index-serving and single-instance for index generation with a persistent index mounted in Azure storage. Typical scenarios we address with this sample are commercial and publisher sites that need to scale the traffic with increasing query volume and need to index maximum 16 TB of data and require couple of index updates per day.
--Windows Azure Dev Center
In case you forgot (or maybe you never knew), Windows Azure supports Java and not just .NET. That's why you're able to deploy Lucene, a Java library, on Azure. Kudos to the Microsoft team for recognizing the importance of Solr and Lucene in many Java applications.
Github Project : Azure/Solr Tutorial
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.)
This content on search technology is part of the Solr-Lucene Microzone, supported by Lucid Imagination. They can help you harness the full potential of search through their enterprise Solr development platform—LucidWorks Enterprise—which can make your production process simpler and more cost-efficient with open source configurability.
